Control Of Virginia’s House Of Delegates Is Going Down To The Wire
Control of Virginia’s House of Delegates is likely to be decided by absentee and provisional ballots. Right now, by my math, Democrats have won 47 districts to Republicans’ 46. There are seven races left uncalled: Democrats lead in four and Republicans in three. Amazingly, the margins in five of the seven districts are less than 150 votes.
For example, in Newport News’s 94th District, Delegate David Yancey, a Republican, currently leads Shelly Simonds, a Democrat, 11,587 to 11,575, with all precincts reporting. But provisional votes won’t be processed for days. Altogether, that means it may take days instead of hours to find out which party will be in control come January.